Safari>Preferences>Cookies Still Does Not Work?

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Safari>Preferences>Cookies Still Does Not Work?

Just as an experiment I in Safari>Preferemces>Privacy I have set 'Block cookies' to "Always" and have set 'Limit website access to location services' to "Deny without prompting". Then I cleared the browser of Cookies and proceeded to www.google.ca ,,,,can you guess what I found in the Safari>Preferences>Privacy? Thats right, cookies from Google. Oh...and from Apple. So will someone tell me how much Apple cares about my privacy OR just tell me how I can stop the cookies for real. And Mac's are definitely very hackable. Sure I am just a little bit agravated. I do not like being lied to IN Verbatim.

MacBook, Mac OS X (10.7.5)

Posted on May 29, 2013 9:54 PM

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dominic23

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May 30, 2013 1:53 AM in response to davesnewlion

Try Private Browsing.

http://support.apple.com/kb/PH11882

When we use free services like Google search anything is possible.

Best.

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ds store

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May 30, 2013 2:32 PM in response to davesnewlion

Use Firefox instead

The following add-ons might be of interest to you

1: NoScript

2: Ghostery

3: Click&Clean

4: Ad Block Plus

5: FlagFox

6: HTTPSEverywhere (from EFI website)

7: TrackMeNot

8: CookiesManager

Also OnyX and CCleaner for Mac.

Maintain some level of privacy/cookie tracking

How do I securely delete data from the machine?

And for almost the best, noting beats a virtual machine OS that you revert back to a earlier snapshot to clear anything and everything.

Keeping Windows in a VM free of malware

Still your sites being visited are recorded by your ISP as well as your Google searches, only a proxy can assist there somewhat.

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davesnewlion Author

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May 31, 2013 12:38 PM in response to dominic23

dominic, I use Private Browsing ALL of the time. It doen't block or delete cookies. But thanks anyhow.

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May 31, 2013 12:47 PM in response to davesnewlion

Dave,

For the cookies issue, you may find the Firefox browser more user friendly.

Mozilla Firefox Web Browser — Free Download — mozilla.org

Always good to have a backup browser installed regardless.

Enable and disable cookies that websites use to track your preferences | Firefox Help

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/products/firefox/cookies

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davesnewlion Author

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May 31, 2013 12:48 PM in response to ds store

ds, I am trying to keep my Macbook on Apple approved apps. Besides, I have had some bad experiences with FireFox. I believe it is what it is. After Gates(Microsoft Windows) and Google and Apple had obsreved how Facebook gets away with ignoring their customer's lack of regard for privacy it has gotten really bad. They all want to track and record everyone's history. Also companies use of the internet as a marketing tool has, in the eyes of google, microsoft, apple and others become acceptable. Especially since so many people have gone from wtching TV to using the internet. But thanks anyhow. Your suggestions may provide some relief to me in the way of privacy. I will check some of those apps out. There was a big meeting of computer and other hardware/software companies involved in a big change over to UNIX based operating systems. Microsoft was excluded from that meeting.

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andyBall_uk

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Jun 1, 2013 5:21 AM in response to davesnewlion

Hi Dave

Using safari 6.0.4 I can't repeat what you found - block cookies always, blocks all cookies. Sure, the 'Details' button reveals cache.local storage & plug-ins, but no cookies.

Same thing when I try Private Browsing while Cookies : Block : 3rd parties & advertisers is used - no extra cookies are added after Private Browsing is started.

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